These decoys are black women, who are some of them free, and others slaves.
Held on; upon seeing that the decoys were a fraud, the geese spun up vertically, and that one cartridge secured both.
Each of these decoysis furnished with a string and leaden weight to act as an anchor.
Two guns, in full sympathy with each other, may effectually combine by occupying holes dug at some fifty yards apart and with a single set of decoys set midway between for mutual use.
Here a new puesto is promptly prepared and the forty-nine decoys deftly set out, each supported by a supple wand stuck in the mud below.
Now a faint glint of light gleams on the tindecoys and foretells the coming dawn.
One could almost fancy there was a display of dry humour in the manner in which the decoys thus played with the fears of the wild herd, and made light of their efforts at resistance.
Several herds of wild elephants having been driven into a corral, two tame decoys were ridden into it:-- One was of prodigious age, having been in the service of the Dutch and English Governments in succession for upwards of a century.
You set decoys off one of the points, and make a blind, and he's got a dandy retriever that brings in the ducks.
In front of him, his little flock of decoys dipped gaily to the breeze, looking so lifelike, that half-closing his eyes, he could almost persuade himself that they were really alive.
There were twoscore decoys bobbing and tugging at their anchor-cords outside the point.
Various means are employed to slaughter these birds: decoys by means of dogs, duck boats armed with guns that resemble infernal-machines, and disguises of every possible kind.
The decoys were directly in his way, and these did not appear to see him until he had run almost between them, so intent were they on watching the others.
As the decoys approached, we thought that the bull seemed to take notice of them.
Every art the Indian can devise is made use of to circumvent these great birds, and snares, traps, and decoys of all kinds are employed in the pursuit.
At best the skins formed but a scanty covering to the bodies of the trappers; but, as we have already remarked, the buffalo has not a very keen sense of sight, and so long as the decoys kept to leeward, they would not be closely scrutinised.
Traps may also be set with bait and some scent used to advantage, in fact many of the decoys are to be used in that way.
One of our old time friends wrote as follows: "I have tried several so-called patent decoys with very indifferent results.
Other very similardecoys are used extensively by Western trappers.
If at first steel traps fail, he may build special deadfalls, often only asdecoys round which to set, unseen, more steel traps in wait for the marauder.
When the decoys were eventually anchored in the bay they bobbed about on the rippling water quite true to life and they even took an occasional dive, when the anchor thong ran taut.
About the rocks, the long snakelike stems and feelers were extended, and the luring decoys waved and glowed again at the ends of the stalks.
They seemed to be the decoys of the feeders that possessed them.
I had another swift glimpse of what seemed only a shadow; saw it poise and shoot downward before I could find it with my gun sight, striking the decoys with a great splash and clatter.
Their habit of decoying readily and persistently, coming back in flocks to the decoys again and again, in spite of murderous volleys, greatly lessens their chances of escape.
The decoys are wild geese which had been crippled and tamed for this purpose.
These decoys they keep in this position until they die of their wounds, or from the attacks of insects.
It was the voice of my friend, who with a companion was occupied in removing from the water the flock of decoys which they had been guarding since sunrise.
The French infantry charged this trench and the decoys fled, making toward the flanks, and as the French poured over the trenches the hidden guns swept them.
The Germans had thrown up conspicuous trenches and with decoys sparsely filled them.
It is occasionally taken in decoys in Norfolk, and has often been observed to associate with Wigeons.
That this method of capturing wild-fowl is effective, may be inferred from the fact that decoys of a precisely similar kind have been worked ever since the time of Willughby (1676), who describes them at length.
A Son of the Marshes gives a fuller account of Duck decoys in Wild-Fowl and Sea-Fowl.
On the whole, whilst the sagacity, the composure, and docility of the decoys were such as to excite lively astonishment, it was not possible to withhold the highest admiration from the calm and dignified demeanour of the captives.
In some instances where the intervention of the other decoys failed to reduce a wild one to order, the mere presence and approach of the tusker seemed to inspire fear, and insure submission, without more active intervention.
One of the decoys which rendered good service, and was obviously held in special awe by the wild herd, was a tusker belonging to Dehigame Rata-mahatmeya.
Still instances are not wanting in Ceylon of trained decoys that have lived for more than double the reputed period in actual servitude.
I know where we can get a good set of decoys to use on that duck hunt, and if you’ll go I’ll agree to get ’em.
As they were returning for the decoys they heard for a time the voices of Piper and Nelson, who seemed to be in high spirits, for they burst into frequent peals of laughter.
From the blind Fred could see the dark figure of his chum, kneeling on the raft, as he spread the decoys out so that they would float upon the water in a natural manner and anchored them with the weights.
They examined the decoys Hooker had borrowed, making sure they were properly “strung” and ready for setting.
Grimly the disappointed lads gathered up the decoys and returned to the old camp.
Fire when they discover the decoys aren’t the real thing and start to rise again.
I will give a pointer on using decoys or scent for making trails, writes a Western trapper.
Your party are strong, and they surely have had enough experience, to avoid all stratagems and decoys of their enemy.
By placing a few decoys before dawn, and lying in wait at these querencias, several shots may be obtained at the "morning flight.
We had gently hinted to Francisco the unwisdom of shooting partridges to decoys in spring; but he insisted it did no harm, since he only shot the cocks!
The scene increased in excitement as the boat neared, for the birds renewed their struggles to escape, and the decoystethered on the island to their pegs leaped and fluttered.
The woodendecoys had been anchored with the live ducks swimming among them, and the world began to awake.
Off on the marshes where the Kenmore Club had its lodge, the live decoys stretched their clipped wings, and raised their green necks restively into the salt wind, and listened.
By the time the decoys were out it began to spit snow, and the wind had freshened.
But he quietly made up his mind to take up thedecoys and row in as soon as the tide ebbed down to two feet of water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decoys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
